Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The occipitalis and frontalis muscles together with their connecting epicranial aponeurosis.
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- noun A large muscle which covers parts of the
skull .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'occipitofrontalis' muscle to the 'foramen magnum'.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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As Clark cannot interview himself to the extent of half a column for the Morning Bazoo without getting his goozle entangled in the skein of his own intorted argument, so the Advertiser cannot grind out an editorial of equal length without getting hoist with its own logical sequence, split from vermiform appendix to occipitofrontalis by the recoil of its own syllogisms.
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The occipitofrontalis muscle had no action on them.
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The occipitofrontalis muscle had no action on them.
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It consists of three layers: a layer of skin, an underlying layer of tissue and blood vessels, and the occipitofrontalis muscle, which raises the eyebrows, stretching from the top of the eyebrows to the back of the head.
unknown title 2009
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It consists of three layers: a layer of skin, an underlying layer of tissue and blood vessels, and the occipitofrontalis muscle, which raises the eyebrows, stretching from the top of the eyebrows to the back of the head.
unknown title 2009
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It consists of three layers: a layer of skin, an underlying layer of tissue and blood vessels, and the occipitofrontalis muscle, which raises the eyebrows, stretching from the top of the eyebrows to the back of the head.
unknown title 2009
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